NIC Kay is from the Bronx. They are a person who makes performances and creates/organizes performative spaces. Their work choreographically highlights and meditates on Black life in relationship to space, social structures, and architecture through centering embodied practices.

Their works have been performed nationally and internationally in spaces including Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto; Encuentro 19, Mexico; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art; and University of Arts, Zürich. They have exhibited work at the California College of the Arts; CCA Wattis Institute; Gallery 400, Chicago; and Woman Made Gallery, Chicago. They published their first book, Cotton Dreams, with Candor Arts in 2020.

NIC Kay has participated as an artist in residence at the Logahaven, Tennessee (2020 – 2021), Center for Book Arts, New York (2020-21), the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2018-19), Pioneer Works (2018), and The Museum of Arts and Design (2018).